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A Million-Dollar Laptop Created

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the conspicuous-consumption dept.

aluminumangel writes "For those of you who don't know what to do with all your money, why not a one million-dollar laptop from the U.K-based company Luvaglio? With 128GB of solid state disk space, Blu-ray, and a detachable rare diamond that acts like a power button and a security key."

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  1. solid state storage, diamond "key".... by gardyloo · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... and batteries by Sony! Dude, you're getting a bomb.

  2. Rare diamond? by dkoulomzin · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not that impressed when we talk about how expensive a laptop is on account of its rare diamond!

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    1. Re:Rare diamond? by Itninja · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?

      Better yet, just tape a check for $996,000 to it?

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    2. Re:Rare diamond? by anotherlogan · · Score: 5, Funny

      Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things could do.

    3. Re:Rare diamond? by Joebert · · Score: 5, Funny

      Indeed. Why not take a $4K Thinkpad and dip in to gold, and then take that and dip it in platinum, and then take the whole thing and roll in spotted-owl feathers?

      I'm pretty sure that voids the warrenty.
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    4. Re:Rare diamond? by Dannon · · Score: 5, Funny

      Imagine what a beowulf cluster of these things would cost!

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  3. Creating it is only half the battle by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now if we could just figure out how to provide one of these for each undernourished, undereducated child in Africa.

    1. Re:Creating it is only half the battle by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not a problem since the cost is related to the diamond...which is mined in Africa by said poor child

    2. Re:Creating it is only half the battle by FunkyELF · · Score: 5, Funny

      You've got a point. They could just "bring their work home with them" and duct-tape it to their OLPC laptop.

  4. With a price of $1M by w.p.richardson · · Score: 5, Funny

    I am sure that it's the Blu-Ray drive that's responsible for the price. Seriously.

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  5. 128GB Solid State is not a big deal by rolfwind · · Score: 5, Informative

    Pricewatch.com lists 8gb for around $80 and 16GB for about $160.

    So lets double the prices for whatever, and we are talking about $2500 of flash. Yes, too expensive to be a component on a notebook today, but really, the prices on this stuff is sinking.

  6. should have spent R&D on a better webserver by Brigadier · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sorry, we're currently experiencing heavy server loads. Please try again in a few minutes. should have spent the $996,000 for a better web server
  7. Yea But.... by semi-old-geek · · Score: 5, Funny

    If I get it without an os it will only be $999,899.

  8. But it will it run Vista? by splatterboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I hate to use cars as an analogy but TFA doesn't mention OS, and if its just a windows box - that would make it the computing version of a Ferrari chassis and body with a Chevy/Ford/VW engine... For a cool million I would think it should have Linux/Mac/MS running virtual with a Jeff Han/perceptive pixel gui... Seriously - if the craftsmanship and precious materials are the only metric here - its just a case-mod. Who made the mobo and cpu?

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  9. Re:Only one problem...DEPRECIATION by thewils · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yep,

    It loses 50% of it's value the moment you get Windows up and running on it.

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  10. Expensive... by Arceliar · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had heard that Vista licenses were expensive...but damn...

  11. Re:If there's one thing that shows what's... by Bluesman · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Nah, it's what's right with the world.

    How else would you separate very rich and foolish people from their money, aside from forcibly taking it?

    The best thing about this is that rich people create incentives for creativity and growth, and spending on luxury items just fuels that.

    Think about the laptop maker, web designer, advertising agency -- all of the people who make a living off of the sale of just one of these.

    Plus, the $1,000,000 is obviously far better off in the hands of somebody willing to use it for a laptop selling business than someone who would spend it on a diamond laptop.

    Besides, someone who is dirt poor in Africa would say the same thing about you. Why do you need to spend an amount of money that would supply a lifetime of food on a computer in the first place?

    In a perfect world, there would be no market for $1,000,000 laptops because everyone would be busy creating more wealth by curing diseases and solving energy crises. Since that's never going to happen, this is the next best thing.

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